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    Simeon * We will no longer think upon this deed . Issachar . But do it . Reuben . Will you stand in the lightning when ' tis done ?"

    The dreadful interest of the scene rises with the entrance of Joseph , who is attacked with savage insults and menaces : — " Josep h * Great God ! ye will not murder me ? Issachar . Oh no ; Ask our clubs .

    Simeon . Strike ! Reuben . Hold ! hold ! hold ! Simeon . Keep Reuben back , or strike him down too /* Reuben obtains a minute ' s respite , and questions his own mind as to the means of influencing them in the following subtle soliloquy : —

    " What is the cause ? What is the cause , my brain , and the preventive means ? Quick—quick . The will ' s a coward at heart ; Unless ' tis deaf , and savage like a beast ' s—Where feeling is , the will sins on its knees ;

    And lack of reason upon nature acting Doth force a courage that is bold and false , That gathers resolution in the dark , Like to a violent giant who is blind . " Acting upon the hope that with his brothers , " feeling is , "

    he advises them to the half-measure of putting Joseph into the pit . This is followed by the arrival of the Egyptians' caravan , to whom they sell him as a slave in the absence of Reuben . These scenes are extremely fine ; and that in which Reuben goes to the p it expecting to find Joseph , and finds only " a treacherous silence , " is deeply touching . He rejoins his brothers as they are counting their silver , and questions them of Joseph : —

    " You have not seen him then ? Simeon . No . Judah . How should we ? Reuben * May the first thunderbolt that spumy the hand Of the invisible archer of the clouds

    Sink in amongst you . And I would that now A deaf ' ning storm , from either corner gather'd , Made havock o ' er your heads I Simeon . What—what is this ? Issachar . The man is raving mad . Reuben . I ssachar , you are a villain , Bustle , and shift your stands . I will be heard . And he that stirs a foot , or moves his staff , Though but to wave it doubtful of offence .

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    160 Dramatic Recollections *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/34/